Look, I couldn't help myself: I hear people pronouncing 52 across wrongly and it grates a little! That was definitely the seed for this meta puzzle. Hopefully, you will be linguistically flexible enough to find your way to the answer, which is a 5-letter word. Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=129515#p129515
Check out "The MOAT Mini Pack of Marching Bands" here: https://www.ephesusscroll.com/about/interest4.html. US$5 gets you 7 Marching Bands which, hard enough on their own, now contain metas too. And once again there's a mega-meta!
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Hector 3s · about 2 years ago
Was sure the answer was going to be upside-down :-)
Got a tip from Ben to spell the 7 weird entries correctly, which I already had tried but just hadn’t chewed on the result long enough to recognize the word it sounded like. This was a fun challenge, and had me saying odd phrases out loud over and over (family already thinks this hobby has made me nuts, so….).
Never would have gotten here without Ben's help, guess I'd best postpone any Australia trips, nobody would understand me
ReB 3s · about 2 years ago
Finally in desperation I hallucinated the correct answer on my fourth answer entry (and at least a hundred attempts at transliteration) - 5 days after basically figuring out the mechanism. My enjoyment was long gone by then, unfortunately.
Nudges didn't really add anything to what I had already figured out, except the private nudge which confirmed that I needed to include 70A (I wasn't sure).